He had tried to explain that he descended from no imperial lineage, that he was an ordinary person just like them.

In this work, she is curled in a sumptuous royal purple veil which refers to her imperial lineage.

In his writings on the legitimate imperial lineage, Kitabatake delved into the subject of land ownership.

When she boasted of her imperial lineage, he tried to blackmail her into sleeping with him.

As a result some media claimed the arranged marriage was Japan's imperialist conspiracy to terminate the Korean imperial lineage.

From then on until the end of the Edo period, the temple saw a succession of head priests of imperial lineage.

Chrysophylax Dives was his name, for he was of ancient and imperial lineage, and very rich.

Far from his home he had not shown himself over bold, in spite of his ancient and imperial lineage.

It was most humiliating for one of ancient and imperial lineage.

Historically, the succession to the Chrysanthemum Throne has generally passed in male line of the imperial lineage.